Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having a high body mass index (BMI) as a young child may not reflect a lifelong risk of obesity, researchers suggest. Sebastian ...

The study suggests there are opportunities to reduce childhood obesity, such as encouraging pregnant women to quit smoking and manage healthy weight gain, as well as closely monitoring children who ...

VIENNA — Tirzepatide leads to clinically meaningful improvements in blood sugar levels and weight loss in children and adolescents whose type 2 diabetes is inadequately controlled, according to ...

July 9, 2010 — Neck circumference (NC) may help identify children with high body mass index (BMI), according to the results of a cross-sectional study reported online July 5 in Pediatrics. "Because ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. child's eye A new test helps predict which kids face the largest genetic risk of a high body mass index (BMI) later in life. That ...

India has been the world's diabetes capital for quite some time now. And according to experts, it stems from obesity. To make ...

BMI alone may not accurately detect excess adiposity in children without obesity, missing many cases. The study emphasizes the need for additional body composition measures, like waist-height ratio ...

Children who are living with severe obesity are more likely to experience a clinically relevant change in BMI when GLP-1 agonist drugs form part of their treatment, new research being presented at ...

About The Study: This cross-sectional study including 426,000 children in Denmark found that body mass index (BMI) outcomes of COVID-19 pandemic–related control policies and restrictions were not ...

The World Obesity Atlas 2026 shows that India is now among the top three countries globally for the highest number of ...

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) highlights the need to support women and their families with overweight or obesity to optimise their health and ...